Date: Tue, 9 Mar 1999 08:29:10 +1030 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: David Shanes <dshanes@personalogic.com>, Patrick Seal <patseal@hyperhost.net>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Laptop Locks up on reboot Message-ID: <19990309082910.B490@lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <09f501be699a$600b0e90$1d43a8c0@shanes1.personalogic.com>; from David Shanes on Mon, Mar 08, 1999 at 11:32:16AM -0800 References: <09f501be699a$600b0e90$1d43a8c0@shanes1.personalogic.com>
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On Monday, 8 March 1999 at 11:32:16 -0800, David Shanes wrote: > On Tuesday, March 02, 1999 2:37 PM, Patrick Seal <patseal@hyperhost.net> wrote: >> My Dell Latitude CPi locks up during: >> >> # reboot (which includes Ctrl-Alt-Del) >> # shutdown -h now (and pressing any key to reboot) >> >> It's just an annoyance, but is therefore annoying. The only way to get it >> to turn of is to take the battery out while it's still running (not a >> pleasant thing to think about). >> >> I can still just `shutdown -h now` and turn off the power, but if I >> accidently push a button the damn thing locks up! >> >> I can't exactly remember when this started happening, the laptop has >> always been running at least 3.0-RELEASE. It's now tracking stable. > > I also have a Dell Latitude CPi. I started to install a couple of times > (3.1R) but had to quit due to some problems that I am trying to resolve. > When I try to quit sysinstall, the screen just locks up. The only recourse > that I have is to pull my battery. I don't have one myself, but a contact at Dell suggests holding down the power button for more than 8 seconds. Greg -- See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message
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